'Daily Voting News' For October 26, 2006

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org Lou Dobbs has taped a one-hour "Democracy At Risk" special to be aired at various times on CNN this coming Sunday. Be sure to tune in. / The Washington Post has found that new system boards were installed in Diebold voting machines used in Maryland. These modifications were made in several thousand machines in 2005. The modification was meant to fix a problem with touch-screen freezes. The WaPo investigation seems to reveal that the modification was made without the knowledge of State Board of Elections members. / The cutoff of names by Hart machines in Texas is frustrating for election officials. "I don't like it. We've been asking the vendor to address this issue for a couple of years now," Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir said. The names are cut off because of the size of the letters onscreen, which "causes longer names to truncate," Hart InterCivic Vice President Phillip Braithwaite said. / "It's really terrible," said Robert J. Antonetti Sr., elections administrator in Prince George's Co Maryland about the late delivery of paper ballots by Diebold. "Time is running out. It's going to deny people the right to vote." I ask again; is Diebold doing to Maryland what they did to Kevin Shelley and Bruce Funk and attempted to do to Ion Sancho?...

NAtional: Stand Up, Be Counted: Grassroots Docs Warn of Flawed Electronic Voting Systems LINK

NAtional: New Voting Systems Face Midterm Exam LINK

NAtional: Opinion - Paul DeGregorio - Your vote will count Hype over hacking shouldn't shatter confidence LINK

NAtional: Reistered voter list errors might impede some Act requires state registration lists' accuracy by Nov. 7 LINK

NAtional: Omaha prints own ballots as others wait LINK

NAtional: How to steal an election by hacking the vote LINK

NAtional: Penetrating The Voting Vortex LINK

AR: Paper Or Touch-Screen? Ark. Voters Go Paper In Early Voting LINK

AR: Washington County - Voting machines to get fix after audit trail prints right vote for the wrong district LINK

AZ: Opinion - Bill Bradbury - Guest opinion: Vote by Mail best way to safeguard democracy LINK

CA: Los Angeles County - L.A. County to audit touch-voting machines LINK

CA: Los Angeles County - County to audit touch-screen voting systems Handful to be tested in wake of concerns about accuracy LINK

CA: San Mateo County - Missing: Absentee ballots County Elections Office a week behind; A toll-free number has been set up for voters' missing ballots LINK

CA: Ventura County - Some in Ojai Valley receive wrong ballots LINK

CO: CBS4 Investigates Security Procedures For Voters LINK

FL: Florida's elections chief defends bid for Negron-Foley poll signs LINK

FL: Early voters find few problems Thousands of voters in South Florida have already cast their ballots during early voting this week. So far, only minor machine problems were reported in Broward. LINK

FL: Broward County - Thousands in South Florida cast early ballots LINK

FL: Volusia County - Democratic poll watchers outnumber Republican oberservers LINK

IL: PFAW Foundation Recruits Thousands of Tech-Savvy College Students to Ensure Voting in Chicago and Cook County Runs Smoothly on Election Day LINK

MD: Md. Voting Machines Had Part Defect Key Component Was Replaced in Touch-Screen Units After Repeated 'Freezes' LINK

MD: CNN's Lou Dobbs: Maryland Trains Poll Workers So Diebold Can't Blame Them For Diebold's Failures LINK

MD: Diebold Quietly Repaired Vote Machines LINK

MD: Keeping watch on Election Day LINK

MD: Diebold machine glitch fixed quietly LINK

MD: WaPo Reveals Hidden Work by Diebold in Maryland as Thousands of System Boards Were Replaced in Secret! LINK

MD: Columnist - Diebold's secret code keeps voters in the dark LINK

MD: Late paper ballots creating problems LINK

NJ: Essex County - Awaiting the exit poll on electronic voting machines LINK

NY: Voting machines alarm democracy LINK

NY: Board Of Elections Tests Next Generation Voting Machines LINK

NY: Krueger Cautions State Against Rushing Into Compliance LINK

OH: Absentee ballot counting has to wait until Nov. 7 LINK

OH: Voting machines, new ID rule for Ohio LINK

OH: Tuscarawas County - Voter SS numbers exposed LINK

PA: Centre County - Commissioner Exarchos warning: Don't tamper with voting machines LINK

PA: Dauphin County - New voting machines spur battle over write-ins LINK

TX: Voting machines chop off candidates' names Computer glitch affects eSlate machines used in Travis, Hays counties; error cannot be fixed by Nov. 7. LINK

TX: Hart Intercivic Voting Machine Screen Displays in Texas Fail Like The Ones In Virginia LINK

UT: Utah's New Election Audit and Recount Procedures Found Lacking by Utah's Desert Greens Party and Utah Count Votes LINK

UT: Some Question Security of E-Voting Machines LINK

UT: Salt Lake County - Expect delays on Election Day LINK

VA: James H. 'Jim' who? LINK

VA: F.C. Election Chief Says Problem With Voting Machines Identified a Year Ago LINK

VA: Lawmakers Pushing for Paper Trail As Backup LINK

WV: Kanawha County - Votes to be counted by precinct LINK

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